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Light in a bowling alley....CUBA

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The best two lane bowling alley ever.....   Dear Friends, Thanks for your prayers for my recent trips to Cuba and Nicaragua. Nicaragua was an amazing time of reflection and training with over 40 key staff from Central America. It was great time and these are amazing leaders I’m proud to work alongside--I may share some of their stories at a later time but I’m going to focus here on our newest ministry in Latin America—Cuba.  Gisela Maria (L), Evry, and Wilder (R ) Wilder and Gisela Maria are our first Cuban staff and have spent several months now recruiting and training our first team of leaders and it was exciting to get to visit them. Cuba is a very interesting and a very challenging place — highly educated and yet its economy has developed very little in the last 50 years, almost everyone is employed by the government but paid less than a livable wage, and most people feel there are big changes coming politically, but no one is quite sure when or what that will look like